How to List and copy the files containing a string - UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

radoulov · #7 (**permalink**) 09-28-2007

Just curious, I tried this:

Code:

zsh 4.3.4% for i ({1..400000}) touch "$i".txt

Ctrl+C after a while.

Code:

zsh 4.3.4% rm *txt
zsh: argument list too long: rm
zsh 4.3.4% autoload zargs
zsh 4.3.4% zargs *txt rm --
zargs:168: subscript too big: 397905
zsh 4.3.4% while :;do rm *.txt([1,20000]);done
zsh: argument list too long: rm

The solution was:

Code:

while :;do rm *.txt([1,10000]);done